The Autobiography Sense Of Xiao Qian's Novel

Xiao Qian ,a famous modern Chinese writer, got high fame not only from the large quantity of news and reportage written by him when he devoted he himself to the Europe as a reporter in the World War II, but also from the thoughtful literature works created by him. BA Jin, the most famous modern Chinese writer, took Xiao as one of his genius friends, another famous modern female writer Bin Xin has ever said, "A generalist like him is peculiar among modern Chinese writers."Xiao stepped into the art palace by writing novel. His childhood was full of bitterness, he had lost his father before he was born, suffered a bitter life with his widow mother. He continued his education while working, and was obliged to Shantou for student strike, and failed his first love. Later he continued his studies in Furen and Yanjing University, where he knew Yang Zhensheng and Shen Congwen and when he began to publish articles, most were novels in the first five years, then turned to news, he has created a lot of reportage, prose, essays ,memoirs and literature criticism, as well as some translation works.The experience of the boyhood imprinted on Xiao Qian deeply and was often reflected in his novel unconsciously ,which, makes his novel full of autobiography senses. The essay will analysis it in detail in three aspects: life autobiography, character autobiography and ideal autobiography. The marks of childhood life can be seen everywhere in Xiao's novel, all the features' selecting, plots' designing, backgrounds' laying, scenes' arranging, vocabulary's using, etc., are all marked the characteristics of the writer's experiences. In addition, the kindness, puerility, vivacity, candor, and sensitivity, inferiority, melancholy brought by the unfortunate childhood life in his characteristics are all reflected in his novels. But then, Xiao Qian was not kept immersed in his past and widening his views and went out of his own's room gradually, began to care for the society, pay a tribute to his motherland, embrace the comrades ,uncover the darkness with a positive attitude and passionate writing way, which, shows "the deep sympathy to the poor and the strong appeal to the human's luciferous future" revealed the persecuting to the heart and the invading to Chinese's thought and cultures by the religion , thus, he completed his ideal autobiography.In a world, earliest experiences of his life impressed deeply on Xiao Qian, furthermore has greatly influenced his writing. The writing way of autobiography style, full passions under the pen, new , natural and creditable writing style, made him quite unique among the writers. He used to use an equal visual angle, abundant psychological description to dig the deeper social reasons, no namby-pamby, no exaggeration, all the works are with full reality sense. The masterly structure and vivid language made him famous quickly in the literature field and as well get him a right position.However, critics put relatively less system studies on Xiao Qian's works. In the past years art history has dissertated little about Xiao until 1980s, from when on more and more critics focus on him and some collections were published specially titled on him. This essay takes Xiao Qian as the study subject, by the opinion advocate by him that" great works are most likely autobiographies in essential", try to discuss how the author took his view into writing practice, how did him take his experiences into fictive narration, how did him express the inner world experiences and emotions in the autobiography-styled fictive narration, so to form a special writing way mixed traditional romantic spirits with realistic description, which, is quite different from the other writers of the same times. Based on the cognition that works are the "suffering and depressed symbolization of the writer", literary creation has close relations to the writers emotion, by the way of social analysis ,works narration analysis, consulting the author's thoughts and career, setting out from the structure and details of the texts, the essay tries to discover the obvious characteristics of autobiography, and to elucidate by what ways Xiao's novels were structured, brought through and developed, then got unique art achievement for the writer.